printed docs bloat to ~5x the size

Can anyone explain in simple(laymans) terms, why an 88KByte word doc
when printing becomes 4.34MByte print job, and others same size or
bigger, dont, and remain as ~90Kbyte print jobs?

 

It's/Your not trying to print it as an image?

 

Is it using some bizarre font that isn't native to the printer and thus
has to be downloaded?

 

not as far as I know, but it's not really my area, but Im having a look
anyway.

 

All printers are set to replace with device font.
With the document set to Times New Roman, it is *only* 3.42MB, Arial it
is 3.78MB.

I know this may sound like an odd querie, but when users complain that
it takes 12-15 mins for a print job, I get roped in to "fix" it, even if
it is their own stupid fault anyway.

 

contains a compressed image expanded to bitmap on printing at a guess

 

well that might do it, it has three small images in the header of the
document, although that wouldn't explain why it changes it size so much
with a font change.

either way I "fixed" it better...
I corrected the duplex mismatch on the printer port, so now the docs fly
through fine as.

 

lol that is nothing,

a few weeks ago when BIT students were finishing off their third year
projects some sick bastard decided to print off a ~ 90mb graphic from the
colour lazer printer that was installed in our project room.

This is while everybody was trying to print off their ~ 500 page 'baseline
project plan' at the same time.

nontherless people were wondering why nothing was coming out of the colour
lazer, it was just sitting there flashing 'data', one of the techies had a
flash of insperation and had a look at the printers que. he promptly purged
the 90mb graphic from the que.

after two weeks of the project room stinking of the smell that eminates
from lazer printers, several dozen reams of paper, several colour & b/w
printer toner refills later i found out we managed to chew threw about 3
grand in two weeks - just on bpp printouts.

 

to you, yes, to me, yes, to the end user waiting for it to print, it is
a very big thing.

ahhh, the joys of having really big printers with heaps of memory
available, you just don't get sick of it.

technical people are sometimes the last to look at the obvious things,
usually because "their gear always works flawlessly", and so they assume
it must be broken.

Joy... I bet the finance dept loved that one.

 

Dave - Dave.net.nz said the following on 14/12/2004 10:47 a.m.:

If the print job contains *objects* which the print engine cannot send
as printer recognized language then it renders it to a *bitmap* for the
printer. This bloat is very common in Kyrocera drivers and some other
lesser known laser printers.
*objects* can be layout controls, images, fonts and many other obscure
items such as page designations etc.

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That would explain it I think... lots of tables with a few images... a
really ugly document.

 

Dave - Dave.net.nz said the following on 14/12/2004 1:43 p.m.:

I was contract admin for a travel co in Auckland, against my advice they
purchased a number of Kyrocera lasers to be placed at each workgroup and
run from a network print spooler over 10 Mb eth.
All the forms and document templates contained tables and other objects
that the river would render to bitmap, every doc blaoted to around 5Mb.
The queues got so large it was a laugh.

I offered a solution, bring in one of my MS Office specialists to re
write the documents or replace the printers with HP which didnt have the
problem.

I laughed all the way to the bank as i took the cut off the top of the
contract fee to redesign all the docs, a cost about 10 times the cost of
throwing the printers and getting new HP. The CEO didnt want to own up
to ignoring advice and making the mistake and the contract was a new
expenditure which didnt have the same level of culpability.

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Formatting?